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MATING.

by D. H. Lawrence.

Ten questions on craft, meaning, and form. Untimed. Answer every question to submit.

Q01of 10

Which of the following best describes the overall structure of 'Mating'?

Q02of 10

In the second stanza, the drake is compared to Abraham primarily to suggest that the drake

Q03of 10

The phrase 'beech-green / spurts / Like a storm of emerald snow' is an example of which poetic technique?

Q04of 10

What is the dominant tone of the poem's final three stanzas?

Q05of 10

Which figure of speech best describes the sun being called a 'quickening, masculine gleam' that 'begets the year in us'?

Q06of 10

The seven toads that 'meet in the dusk to share / The darkness that interweaves' function chiefly to

Q07of 10

In the seventh stanza, Lawrence suggests that Earth sends 'fine yellow beams' to 'virgin' stars in order to

Q08of 10

The word 'thrall' in the sixth stanza most nearly means

Q09of 10

According to the poem, what is the speaker's lover apparently doing in the fifth stanza?

Q10of 10

Which statement most accurately summarises the speaker's moral argument in the final stanza?

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